14 Films & TV Shows Set In Israel During The 1940s
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Operation Finale
🇮🇱 Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sAfter World War II, Hitler’s deadliest lieutenant escaped. — In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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The Road to Where
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sIsrael 1948. A house by the sea in Jaffa, from which Palestinian families have had to flee in haste, becomes the home of Jewish survivors who managed to escape the inferno in Europe. Out of the turmoil of their existence, under the shadow of the unresolved conflict between Jews and Arabs, rises a desperate cry for.
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Above and Beyond
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sIn 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1950s The 1940sThe story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.
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Black Book
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇮🇱 Israel The 1950s The 1940sTo fight the enemy, she must become one of them. — In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
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Ô Jerusalem
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sA tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
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Kedma
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sIn May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
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My Heart Is Mine Alone
🇮🇱 Israel The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sHelma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schüler makes her way to Jerusalem even as Benn discovers the true nature of the Nazi ideology he had once championed. Lena Stolze and Cornelius Obonya star.
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Mother Night
New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇱 Israel The 1960s The 1940s The 1930sThe truth is more shocking than the uniform he wears... HE WAS AN AMERICAN SPY. — An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
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Himmo, King of Jerusalem
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sAdapted from Yoram Kaniuk's best-selling novel, this heart-rending love story unfolds during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. A young and beautiful volunteer nurse is drawn to the enigmatic Himmo, a mortally wounded and mutilated soldier who cannot speak or move.
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Cast a Giant Shadow
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sOutnumbered - unarmed - unprepared - they stunned the world with their incredible victory! — An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.
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Exodus
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sBased on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sThe passionate love story of a fighting Irishman and an Israeli lass. — First movie produced in Israel deals with the outbreak of hostilities during the war for independence in 1947.
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The Juggler
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sThe story of a man of passions ! — A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
